Suspend The Sport For A Year?

B. Lafferty said:

This was suggest here and by at least one top person
(who??) in the sport back in 1998 after the Festina
Affair. It might be worth considering if the
business/sports powers can't bring themselves to simply
allow all doping.

Suspend the entire sport for one year and let everyone
come to grips with the problem and try to find a solution.

6 years later, the solution is still ridiculous.

"B. Lafferty" wrote ...

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Suspend the entire sport for one year and let everyone
come to grips with the problem and try to find a solution.

I have another idea, Brian. Why don't you suspend
beginning new threads for a year? See what it does to the
complexion of rbr.

(the original) Thanks very much,

Jim Flom

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"B. Lafferty" wrote ...

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Suspend the entire sport for one year and let everyone
come to grips

with

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the problem and try to find a solution.

I have another idea, Brian. Why don't you suspend
beginning new threads

for

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a year? See what it does to the complexion of rbr.

(the original) Thanks very much,

Jim Flom

Pastor Jim,

Why don't you take a stroll over to your church for some
prayer and reflection?

Brother Brian

That would certainly put the last nail in the coffin of
the sport.

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Quoted message said:

This was suggest here and by at least one top person
(who??) in the sport back in 1998 after the Festina
Affair. It might be worth considering if

the

Quoted message said:

business/sports powers can't bring themselves to simply
allow all doping.

Suspend the entire sport for one year and let everyone
come to grips with the problem and try to find a solution.

"B. Lafferty" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

Quoted message said:

This was suggest here and by at least one top person
(who??) in the sport back in 1998 after the Festina
Affair. It might be worth considering if the
business/sports powers can't bring themselves to simply
allow all doping.

Suspend the entire sport for one year and let everyone
come to grips with the problem and try to find a solution.

I suggest that they give a life time ban to anyone caught
using performance enhancing drugs. If you have people who
are going to try and cheat, give them what they deserve if
they get caught.

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This was suggest here and by at least one top person
(who??) in the

sport

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back in 1998 after the Festina Affair. It might be worth
considering if

the

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

business/sports powers can't bring themselves to simply
allow all

doping.

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Suspend the entire sport for one year and let everyone
come to grips

with

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

the problem and try to find a solution.

I suggest that they give a life time ban to anyone caught
using performance enhancing drugs. If you have people who
are going to try and cheat, give them what they deserve
if they get caught.

The idea of closing the sport down for a year was
suggested after Festina by one of the Italian sponsors or
managers, IIRC. The only plus I see to it would be to let
the folks in the sport see what life could be like if they
totally destroy it. At least that was the rational put
forward back in 1998.

I agree that lifetime bans for the first or second offense
would help and that's what WADA is trying to impliment.
Beyond that, a suspension for team management implicated in
doping would also help. This is a point that Manzano made
several times in his published interviews. It's management
that puts pressure on to perform beyond what is reasonable
and/or healthy. It seems that the health issue is starting
to reverberate a bit through the riders. ProCycling has an
article today quoting another Spanish rider supporting what
Manzano had said. See
procycling.comnews main.aspOpen ↗

"B. Lafferty" wrote ...

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nothing much worth quoting

You know, Bri, your response plays like a cheap shot. I
musta struck a nerve. Why don't you meditate upon my
suggestion, eh?

Jim Flom

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"B. Lafferty" wrote ...

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nothing much worth quoting

You know, Bri, your response plays like a cheap shot. I
musta struck a nerve. Why don't you meditate upon my
suggestion, eh?

Jim Flom

Kind of Old Testament, eh? Not exactly a Christ-Buddha
dialogue. Oh well.......

On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 17:56:51 GMT, "B. Lafferty" <[email hidden]>

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Beyond that, a suspension for team management implicated in
doping would also help.

If management was the instigator of the doping, every
individual in management should be banned from organized
cycling for life. This would still let them participate in
certain parts of the USCF, of course.

Curtis L. Russell Odenton, MD (USA) Just someone on
two wheels...